kieltää

== Finnish == === Etymology === From Proto-Finnic *keeltädäk, equivalently kiel- (“tongue”) +‎ -tää; the original meaning was likely simply “to speak”. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈkie̯ltæːˣ/, [ˈk̟ie̞̯l̪t̪æː(ʔ)] Rhymes: -ieltæː Syllabification(key): kiel‧tää Hyphenation(key): kiel‧tää === Verb === kieltää (transitive) to forbid, prohibit, disallow, ban [with ablative ‘someone, something’; or (with verbs) with partitive ‘someone, something’ and elative of third infinitive ‘from doing’] (transitive) to deny, controvert, dispute, contest, negate (argue that something is not the case) Synonym: kiistää (transitive) to renounce (also in a religious sense), repudiate, disown Synonym: hylätä (transitive, law) to contest Synonyms: hylätä, moittia, riitauttaa kieltää jonkun testamentti ― to contest someone's last will ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === References === === Further reading === “kieltää”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023